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  • Unsayable by Michael Cunningham review – The Hours author on the insecurities that powered his creative life
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  • I Made This Just For You by Chris Ames review – absurd satirical takes on the bleak absurdity of modern life
  • Raymond Briggs’s library goes on sale at his local Oxfam shop
  • The Midnight Train by Matt Haig audiobook review – a cosy, feelgood journey
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  • The end of Heartstopper is a bittersweet loss – it’s never felt scarier to be young and queer
  • Air by Christian Kracht review – a metaphysical jigsaw puzzle
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  • The Guardian view on Chinese workers picking up the pen: poetry in motion
  • Salman Rushdie attacker faces US terrorism trial
  • Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement
  • Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey
  • The rise of the ‘hot literati’: how reading became sexy
  • Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell review – art, desire and the rise of the Third Reich
  • On Thin Ice by Charlie Walker review – a Siberian adventure goes off the rails
  • From Bernie to Mamdani, how the Occupy movement transformed American politics
  • Social Darwinists to tech bros: tracing the long fight against equality in US
  • These Wild English by Nicola Wilding review – explaining a mother’s drift to the far right
  • Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead review – final part of the Harlem Trilogy is freewheeling fun
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  • A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies
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  • Hagitude author Sharon Blackie: ‘At 60 I wasn’t ready to give up, I was just starting’
  • Every year 6 student to be given Katherine Rundell book for Christmas

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